BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran launched a missile attack on U.S.-led forces in Iraq in the early hours of Wednesday, hours after the funeral of an Iranian commander whose killing in a U.S. drone strike has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

Tehran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles from Iranian territory against at least two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S.-led coalition personnel, the U.S. military said on Tuesday

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed that they fired the rockets in retaliation for last week’s killing of Qassem Soleimani, according to state TV.

“We are working on initial battle damage assessments,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement, adding that the bases targeted were al-Asad air base and another in Erbil, Iraq.

Still too early to know if there were any American casualties, although I have seen some reports that a couple of Iraqis who were stationed on the base were injured or killed. The Danish government said none of it's troops stationed at the base were injured.

They have 2000 long range missiles. I would want them to shoot them all, so they use up their inventory ;-) For each missile launch, we get intel on their technology. Hezbollah has a lot of short range rockets (40-150 K) targeting Israel. Mostly defensive. Israel last did a military incursion into Lebanon in 2006 which was a failure.

I think it is OK for Iran to attack Dubai, since it is Sunni ;-) Attacking Israel makes Netanyahu a hero again 🇮🇱. Both are stupid moves. Back in 2001 I used to watch Iranian TV on the Internet. They aren't my enemy ... Congress and Democrats are.

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It's the Al Asad base, it's Iraqi but with US personnel, they way I understood it.

Co-operated apparently. But given it is (was?) the second largest U.S. base in Iraq during the height of the war there and just the general power disparity, my assumption is that the U.S. are the real rulers.

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In more fun news, apparently about an hour ago a Ukrainian 737 crashed right outside of Tehran carrying 130 passengers, just an hour or two after the missile attack.

But if we didn't have something like 13 named military bases around Iran, how would we provoke them?

Get with it!

if non-islam exists, Islam must conquer it. If Shia and Sunni exist, they must destroy each other (like France vs Germany). So nothing the US can do, isn't an insult to Saudi and Iran. Opposition is existential. Yes, we could be isolationist. I would like that. Particularly we need to kill NATO ... there is no reason to attack Russia. But that won't bring peace. No TEAM AMERICA would be a good thing. But then our economy will collapse. I think that is a good thing too. End the Federal Government ... then no IRS ;-)

What I oppose, is Jimmy Carter Sunday School Politics. If we are nice to people like Mr Rogers was, then others will be nice to us. That is infantile. There are consequences to being aggressive, and consequences to being submissive. You can't avoid consequences. Do you prefer aggressive consequences or submissive consequences? So the US has preferred aggression since 1941, starting with Japan. Should we let Japan conquer China and kill/enslave all those innocent people? Neo-libs (FDR) said no. Cutting off Japanese oil was an act of war. Tojo did nothing wrong.

US has been at war with Iran since 1979. A different time, Cold War, Iran revolution was Soviet, with French communist assistance (Ayatollah was staying in France). If we let the Soviets gain anything, then WW III will happen. Does anyone really think that Putin is Stalin? Obama made a peace, but didn't get the treaty ratified. A ratified treaty requires Congress to overturn it, not executive decision by POTUS. Obama succeeded/failed.

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Co-operated apparently. But given it is (was?) the second largest U.S. base in Iraq during the height of the war there and just the general power disparity, my assumption is that the U.S. are the real rulers.

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In more fun news, apparently about an hour ago a Ukrainian 737 crashed right outside of Tehran carrying 130 passengers, just an hour or two after the missile attack.

Boeing management are murderers. Like Morton-Thiokol.

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My suggestion to glass the entire region was rejected by short-sighted people.

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My suggestion to glass the entire region was rejected by short-sighted people.

I'm not sure what they are, but I think there may be negative consequences to glassing the entire area. It does seem like a simple solution, but the fact that our government isn't about to do it tells me that someone respected as an authority on geopolitics is anticipating an unwanted outcome. However, glassing is never off the table either, and I can easily imagine many scenarios that would precipitate glassing, none of which would lead to a glorious victory for Iran. This does not mean it would automatically be a victory for the US, however. We would undoubtedly win the war, but at costs that could be intolerable... Maybe.